Category Archives: Cape Tribulation
Metallic starlings — Glittering Jetsetters
Our Daintree Rainforest fauna comes in all shapes and sizes –and this particular Daintree Blog is about a jetsetting mob of animals who live half of the year overseas, then […]
Continue ReadingDaintree’s Dinosaur. The cassowary.
Prefer to listen? Podcast available click here. And here you are, on your journey of a life time travelling through the Daintree tropical rainforest section of the Great Barrier Reef […]
Continue ReadingBoofy frog choir in the Daintree
Prefer to listen? Podcast available – here. We heard it again just the other night. Starting distantly, almost imperceptibly, with a steady build-up outside that slowly invaded our space, until […]
Continue ReadingDAINTREECAM Art. Living and loving our 10 natural beaches
Prefer to listen. Click here for Podcast. Life’s a beach here in the Daintree. Actually, we have ten (yes 10!) beaches between the Daintree and Bloomfield Rivers, but who’s counting? […]
Continue ReadingPhantastic Phantom Phasmid in Daintree RainPhorest
You never know who you’ll find when you explore the Daintree Rainforest. Hidden among the greenery could be lurking green ghosts! Please, come and meet this very unusual stick insect, […]
Continue ReadingHeat before the storm
Prepared 6 December 2018, just before a few days rain, totalling 405 mm. The Great Rainmaker, Thorntons Peak, has been letting us down lately. Firstly, the July rockslide, then a […]
Continue ReadingStranglers and other strange figs
Who gives a fig? Well, dried figs make lovely presents in some cultures, and most of our Daintree species are edible, yet small and more suited to jam-making. Some are […]
Continue ReadingDive-bombing rainbow bee-eaters after Woobadda damsels
Zorro, eat your heart out! The bandit-like bold black band linking the bill to the back of the head through its eye seems to be a disguise, but it’s also […]
Continue ReadingBloomfield River. The best croc spotting around.
The Bloomfield is considered the best croc-spotting river drive in the Cairns Region. Why? Because most local rivers have bridge crossings, without a river drive. The Bloomfield River is unique […]
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